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Austen, Jane Emma
Young, beautiful Emma Woodhouse attempts to play matchmaker in her search for love for herself and her friends.
Fiction Austen
Teen Austen
Anderson, M.T. Burger Wuss
Love gone wrong, fast food, and revenge all play a part in this funny story of relationships.
Teen Anderson
Bauer, Joan Thwonk
A cupid doll comes to life and gives romantic advice.
Teen Bauer
Blume, Judy Forever
Two high school seniors believe that their love will last forever.
Teen Blume
Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.
Teen Brashares
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre becomes a governess in Mr. Rochester's home of Thornfield and falls in love with him before she finds that he has a tragic secret.
Fiction Brontë
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
When Mr. Lockwood has an encounter with the spirit of Catherine Linton at the home of the unsociable Heathcliff, he hears the story of the tempestuous love affair between Catherine and Heathcliff.
Fiction Brontë
Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never exactly been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson-a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
Fiction Burns
Teen Burns
Cormier, Robert Tenderness
A psychological thriller told from the viewpoints of a serial killer and a runaway girl who eventually falls in love with him.
Teen Cormier
Dai, Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.

Fiction Dai
Teen Dai

De Bernieres, Louis Corelli's Mandolin
Corelli, an Italian army captain, falls in love with Pelagia Iannis on the island of Cephalonia after the Axis forces occupy the island in World War II.
Fiction DeBernieres
Teen DeBernieres
Desai Hidier, Tanaju

Born Confused
Dimple doesn't want the "suitable Indian boy" her parents have found for her, but her best friend Gwen does.

Teen Desai Hidier
Dessen, Sarah This Lullaby
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short, noncommittal relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock musician.
Teen Dessen
Frank, Hillary Better Than Running at Night
A freshman art student from Manhattan spends her first year away from home in New England.

Fiction Frank
Teen Frank

Fredericks, Mariah The True Meaning of Cleavage
When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive.
Teen Fredericks
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The son in the family for which Tess Durbeyfield works assaults her, and she has a child who dies in infancy, but her husband is unforgiving.
Fiction Hardy
Klause, Annette Curtis Blood and Chocolate
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Teen Klause
Korman, Gordon Son of the Mob
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
Teen Korman
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind
Scarlett O'Hara faces and survives the Civil War and Reconstruction and marries Rhett Butler for his money because her true love has married someone else.
Fiction Mitchell
Teen Mitchell
Niffenegger, Audrey Time Traveler's Wife
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. Fiction. Niffenegger. Also in Teen.
Fiction Niffenegger
Teen Niffenegger
Packer, Ann

Dive from Clausen's Pier
When her fiancé Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.

Fiction Packer
Teen Packer
Segal, Erich Love Story
A portrayal of the courtship and marriage of a wealthy Harvard hockey player and a brilliant Radcliffe music student.
Fiction Segal
Weyr, Garret Freymann

My Heartbeat
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.

Teen Wehr
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome
A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for his cousin.
Fiction Wharton
Teen Wharton
Whitlinger, Ellen

Hard Love
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

Teen Wittlinger
Wolff, Virginia Euwer True Believer
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
Teen Wolff
Young, Cathy

One Hot Second: Stories About Desire
A collection of eleven stories by award-winning authors that explore the many varieties of teenage desire, including first crushes, first kisses, and first times.

Teen S.C. One

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